In later life, Lord Burghley’s athletic exertions caused him to suffer terribly from arthritis.
In 1957, by then the 6th Marquess of Exeter, he had one of the first hip-replacement operations.
Ten years later, his hip was again replaced.
The first, titanium hip was silver-plated, embellished with the Exeter crest above the motto, ‘A loyal supporter, 1957-1967’ and subsequently placed as a mascot on the bonnet of Lord Exeter’s Rolls Royce.
